[Insight-developers] ThirdParty warning suppressions, an experiment

[Bill Lorensen]

I have submitted the gerrit patch:
http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,1407
I plan to merge it tonight or tomorrow.

Here is the commit message:
COMP: Suppress ThirdParty warnings

The majority of warnings on the itk dashboard come from third party
packages. This patch supresses all third party warnings

These warnings are interfering with the ITK development process. Most
of these warnings have been present since the start of the ITK4
development and some third party developers show little interest in
removing them.

The purpose of this experiment is to clean up the ITK warnings.

Each third party package has a suppression. After establishing a
baseline, we will remove the suppressions one at a time to see what
warnings are introduced, If any warnings are introduced by a package
we will wait for a couple of days to fix them. Once the warnings for a
package are resolved, we will not suppress warnings for that package.

Here is a list of the third party packages with their status
(suppressed or clean).
DICOMParser suppressed
Expat suppressed
GDCM suppressed
JPEG suppressed
KWSys suppressed
MetaIO suppressed
Netlib suppressed
NIFTI suppressed
NrrdIO suppressed
OpenJPEG suppressed
PNG suppressed
TIFF suppressed
VNL suppressed
VNLInstantiation suppressed
ZLIB suppressed

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Over the past moths I have been complaining about third party
> packages, mainly, gdcm, that are generating warnings. There has been
> little if any progress in fixing the third party warnings. We have
> been assured that gdcm will be cleaner once we update to the new
> release. However, for the time being, I propose to suppress all third
> party warnings. If nothing else, it will make it easy for us to clean
> itk. It will also show haw bad these third part packages are with
> regard to warnings.
>
> Today's itk4 nightly dashboard shows 873 warnings (so far).
>
> I'll be submitting a gerrit patch to suppress the third party
> warnings. If approved, I'll merge it.
>
> Bill
>